Users familiar with Workflows markup language will find working with metadata easy to incorporate into their workflows.

In addition, we have also integrated the Different-space publishing with Metadata for Confluence. You can configure metadata sets and fields in your draft space and then, when you publish content from your draft space to your target space, your metadata will also be published in the target space.

Getting the value reference

To use Metadata values in your workflow, all you need is the value reference – and it's super simple to find!

Go to Space Tools → Metadata → Metadata fields tab and you'll see all the value references listed in the Key column as illustrated below:

Using the value references

You can now use those keys as the Value References in your workflows, simply by wrapping them with @ (at) symbols..

For example, to use the Deadline (metadatafield.deadline) an Main reviewer (metadatafield.mainreviewer) metadata fields, highlighted in the screenshot above, in a content review: